obstructiveness
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The shutdown and eventual nationalisation of Orano's operations have been surrounded by mutual recrimination, with the government and the company accusing each other of obstructiveness.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025
Never has a collegiate women’s player possessed the combination of Griner’s size, mobility, soft shooting touch, effortless dunking and elegant obstructiveness, which allows her to block shots while hardly ever drifting into foul trouble.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2012
We need hardly speak in the language of detestation of this species of obstructiveness, which prevents hundreds of valuable schemes of social melioration from being entered into.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852 by Robert Chambers
Michael, Wedderburn, and Maurice displayed their most polite obstructiveness, but in the end each of them found himself upright, stiff-backed and exasperated.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
The Utilitarians saw in the dogged obstructiveness of Eldon and his like the one great obstacle to reform.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill by Sir Leslie Stephen
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